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Naxal guerrilla insurgency in India

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) for the last 10 years has been engaged in a guerrilla campaign against Indian security forces. A conflict in which thousands have died and tens of thousands more are still engaged. The Naxals, as they are called, after the 1967 Naxalbari uprising, are mainly composed of and find their base of support among small rural peasants and poor workers. India is a country largely based on agricultural labor and a place in which the majority of the people are located rural regions in which the armed struggle, in the form of protracted peoples war, thrives and constantly gains momentum. 

India is one of the oldest, most populous, and largest countries in the world. It is a country rich in natural resources and human labor power; the “jewel in the crown” of British imperialism for 200 years. A country which before the period of direct British rule had a feudal system developing with the embryo of capitalist commodity production with among one of the most advanced textile industries in the world (for instance paisley, Kashmir, khakis are borrowed from different languages in India). An strong, independent, India with its own developing capitalist class was stopped with British dominion- they were then organized into an imperial system of dependence. The comprador capitalists who then emerged in India on the basis of super-exploiting the country required the empire to exist and grow and were, just as they are now, have no inclination to the liberation of the workers and peasants from capitalist, imperialist, patriarchal oppression.

The Naxals even in their relatively small numbers represent monumental developments of class struggle in not only south Asia, which as a whole has an incredibly vibrant and militant working class together Nepalese Maoist guerillas who maintain incredible strength, but for the entire world’s exploited and oppressed. India today is geographically and economically as crucial to global imperialism today as a semi-feudal state as it was to the British to their empire. It is a country with 1.2 billion people and an ever-growing industrial working class that creates everything from clothing to electronics to be sold on the imperialist world market. There are large strikes and factory occupations around the country emerging constantly, the 100 million workers who last February shut the entire country down in the largest general strike in history, as well as the outrage and action regarding the monstrous rape epidemic that stems from imperialist social structure. Imagine what the state of the global class struggle would look like if a red India shared a common border with the People’s Republic of China. Apart from the deadly blow to imperialist capitalism at its dead end phase economically, it would align the forces in China objectively to the left, it would spur the Chinese working class out of its torpor, and unite a solid block of revolutionary communists in the two most populous countries in the world.